Constitutional expiration date in the US Constitution?

The Constitution of May 3rd, 1791 of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was interesting in this regard, because, among other things, it did not have any mechanisms for either the legislature or the population to amend the Constitution on any normal occasion. In exchange, it had something you could call an "expiration date" - every 25 years after its adoption, the Sejm would have to convene for an extraordinary session and draft the Constitution anew, including amendments, revisions and changes as necessary. In between these extraordinary Sejm sessions, the Constitution could not be modified in any way.

For reference.

Now, as the Constitution of May 3rd was short-lived, this approach to constitutional changes obviously didn't go very far.

But could it have been, for whatever reason, been introduced to the world two years prior, in the United States Constitution? And what impact would it have had on US history afterwards.

For reference, assuming the adoption of the Constitution as a starting point, next Constitutional Conventions would be in 1814, then 1839, so on and so forth. Although a different time period is also an option.
 
I can see Jefferson pushing for something like this if he were involved more instead of overseas. Or maybe if the Constitution runs into more opposition from the anti-federalists, some kind of compromise like this is worked out.
 
I can see Jefferson pushing for something like this if he were involved more instead of overseas. Or maybe if the Constitution runs into more opposition from the anti-federalists, some kind of compromise like this is worked out.

Jefferson did float the idea that constitutional admentments needed to re-ratified every 20 years, so this is not that much of a stretch.....
 
Also, a baked in provision for new Constitutions every, say 25 years, is an open invitation to secession. Any state(s) that disagreed with the majority could simply refuse to sign the new deal. And theredt be no way to stop them.
 
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